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‘Tyler Perry’s House of Payne:’ It’s All in the Delivery
By
Kris Rasmussen
With television sitcoms becoming an almost extinct species these days, it might seem like ratings suicide to air a sitcom as old-fashioned as TBS’s “Tyler Perry’s House of Payne,” which debuts tonight. The premise of more than one generation of a close knit African American family living under one roof seems like a blue-collar throwback…
Cleaning Up After the MTV Movie Awards
By
Douglas Howe
Hallelujah! (And you don’t have to bleep that out!) After watching the rude-and-crude MTV movie awards and readying to post a blog that would have leaked a bit too much anger and frustration at what television is still becoming, some good news arrived. The frustration came from the MTV movie awards; the inspiration came from…
Tyler Perry Tackles TV
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Idol Chatter
It was little more than two years ago that Tyler Perry seemed to come from nowhere–actually, it was from the African-American theater scene–to see his debut film, “Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” gross more than $50 million. That made this formerly homeless man of faith one of the hottest filmmakers in Hollywood. How big…
Meteorologist Moby Vs. Evangelicals
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Ellen Leventry
It seems that Moby is stepping into the religious weather man role now that Jerry Falwell has passed on. Last week, the musician asked in his online journal, “You know how the religious right will every now and then say that some natural disasters (hurricanes, earthquakes, etc.) happen because God is angry at secular sinners?…
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